{"id":30887,"date":"2018-10-27T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30887"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:49:01","slug":"ministry-denies-vendetta-against-prasar-bharati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ministry-denies-vendetta-against-prasar-bharati\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry denies vendetta against Prasar Bharati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/ministry-denies-vendetta-against-prasar-bharati\/article22914082.ece\"><b>Ministry denies vendetta against Prasar Bharati<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prasar Bharati is bound by the government\u2019s general financial rules and must sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Information &amp; Broadcasting Ministry on financial targets and timelines for activities to use grants in a financial year, the Ministry said.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why in news?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry\u2019s statement comes in the wake of a public conflict between the Prasar Bharati Board and the Ministry and a media report that the Ministry had withheld funds after December 2017 in response to the Prasar Bharati Board\u2019s differences with the Ministry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a meeting of the Prasar Bharati Board last month, at least three directives from the Ministry were rejected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry&#8217;s directives were in \u201ccontempt\u201d of the Prasar Bharati Act.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2018<\/span><b>Fiscal prudence crucial\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fiscal prudence and accountability is the very fulcrum of the functioning of any government organisation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prasar Bharati is bound by the General Financial Rules (GFR) of the Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry denies vendetta against Prasar Bharati Context: The Prasar Bharati is bound by the government\u2019s general financial rules and must sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Information &amp; Broadcasting Ministry on financial targets and timelines for activities to use grants in a financial year, the Ministry said. Why in news? The Ministry\u2019s statement&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ministry-denies-vendetta-against-prasar-bharati\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ministry denies vendetta against Prasar Bharati<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895893},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}